sorry, what i was trying to say was, how would i write something that at first tries to create a hidden file on a apple computer then if the computer was not a apple creates a hidden file on a windows OS
i have slowly been reading your tutorial and it's really one of the best tuts i've ever read i really like and that was the first place i checked but in the GUI section the text entry bit is for a single line of text On Oct 3, 2007, at 3:58 PM, Alan Gauld wrote: > > "max baseman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > >> i've got two questions, 1st how would you go about creating a hidden >> text file that trys on a apple and if that does not work tries to do >> it on a windows computer? > > I don;t undeetabnd this bit. What does the text file try on > the Apple/Windows computer? > >> the program I'm making is a vary simple text editor for one file all >> it needs to be able to do is add text and save. as far as i can see >> i'll mostly need to use the text widget but i cant find a tutorial >> for that widget mostly just for the text entry widget which is only >> for one line of text. if anyone knows a good tut that would be great > > This should only be about 20 lines of code. The Text widget plus > the standard fole open/save dialogs should dop all you need. > > For a very simple example of using the Text widget see the case > study and the Event Driven programming topics of my tutor. > > For more detail see Fred Lundh's Tkinter reference. > > When you get stuck ask here. > > HTH, > > > -- > Alan Gauld > Author of the Learn to Program web site > http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld > > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
